Word: carmens
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...came back in 1943 to sing Venus from a sitting position, Interrupted Melody is a poliopera in color. For three-fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from Carmen, La Bohème, II Trovatore and Samson et Dalila. In the final fourth, with the loyal support of her husband (Glenn Ford), she grimly fights off her affliction. Somehow, the film trails vaguely away from the sense of real-life sorrow and courage which inspired it. Instead, the audience is left...
...with voodoo (she still recalls how voodoo charms were found in the mattress after a relative died). Both Eartha and Dorothy made their way to the top through the nightclub circuit as singers, but think of themselves primarily as actresses. This season both made big acting hits, Dorothy as Carmen in the movie version of Carmen Jones (the singing was dubbed in by Marilynn Home), Eartha as the impish heroine of Broadway's Mrs. Patterson...
...Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey (TIME...
...famed Peruvian singer combines her trick voice with the driving, big-band rhythms of Billy May. She growls like a bush-league Carmen, coloratours through the upper register like the Queen of the Night, and whoops like a jungle bird, but is it mambo...
...Every producer is hungry for a new repertory work. "Carmen" is always an excitement to restudy, but to produce it again is also an admission of poverty," he said...